"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."
― James Madison
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War
― James Madison
More From James Madison
- "War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
- "The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
- "A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them."
More In War
- "The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow ‘Operation Re-elect Bush’ doesn’t seem to be popular."― Jay Leno
- "I was very much a child of the Cold War."― Justin Cronin
- "War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."― George Orwell